OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Birds in agroscapes: effects of forest cover and landscape heterogeneity on dryland bird diversity and composition	48
Climate influence on future suitability of high-altitude wetlands in two natural protected areas from the Central Andes of Argentina	44
Landscape structure coupled to instream features shape freshwater biodiversity in Cerrado agricultural landscapes	28
Brazil’s Belo Monte license renewal and the need to recognize the immense impacts of dams in Amazonia	25
Does spring bring colors? Seasonal bird plumage color variation along urban-rural gradients	23
Patterns of endemism in Amazonian floodplain birds	18
Natural grassland remnants in dynamic agricultural landscapes: identifying drivers of fragmentation	18
Landscape composition regulates the spillover of beneficial insects between forest remnants and adjacent coffee plantations	16
Environmental DNA and biodiversity patterns: a call for a community phylogenetics approach	13
Mapping the threat: projecting invasive plant distribution in the tropical Andes under climate change	13
How habitat loss and fragmentation are reducing conservation opportunities for vertebrates in the most threatened savanna of the World	12
Top-down local management, perceived contribution to people, and actual detriments influence a rampant human‒top predator conflict in the Neotropics	11
From whom and for what? Deforestation in Dry Chaco from local-urban inhabitants’ perception	11
Projected responses of Cerrado anurans to climate change are mediated by biogeographic character	11
Spatial networks reveal how forest cover decreases the spread of agricultural pests	11
Climate-driven loss of taxonomic and functional richness in Brazilian Atlantic Forest anurans	11
Populations across bird species distribution ranges respond differently to habitat loss and fragmentation: implications for conservation strategies	10
Predicting the range expansion of invasive alien grasses under climate change in the Neotropics	10
Governance lessons from the Atlantic Forest to the conservation of the Amazon	10
High-diversity Atlantic Forest restoration plantings fail to represent local floras	10
Conserving biodiversity in coffee agroecosystems: Insights from a herpetofauna study in the Colombian Andes with sustainable management proposal	9
Neutral processes and reduced dispersal across Amazonian rivers may explain how rivers maintain species diversity after secondary contact	9
Insectivorous birds and potential pest control services: An occupancy study of functional groups in a coffee landscape in Oaxaca, Mexico	9
Anthropogenic factors do not affect male or female jaguar habitat use in an Amazonian Sustainable Reserve	9
Sailing into the past: Nautical charts reveal changes over 160 years in the largest reef complex in the South Atlantic Ocean	9

From silos to solutions: Navigating transdisciplinary conservation research for early career researchers	9
Network science: Applications for sustainable agroecosystems and food security	8
Why is it so easy to undergo devegetation in the Brazilian Cerrado?	8
Large herbivore-palm interactions modulate the spatial structure of seedling communities and productivity in Neotropical forests	8
Fire reduces taxonomic and functional diversity in Neotropical moist seasonally flooded forests	8
Macroscale climate change predictions have little influence on landscape-scale habitat suitability	8
Olfactory repellents as perceptual traps for mesocarnivores immersed in livestock systems	8
Habitat loss and distribution of the Ornate Horned Frog (Ceratophrys ornata): implications for its conservation in South American temperate grasslands	8
Trait shifts in bird communities from primary forest to human settlements in Mexican seasonal forests. Are there ruderal birds?	7
Edges as hotspots and drivers of forest cover change in a tropical landscape	7
The Protected Areas network may be insufficient to protect bird diversity in a fragmented tropical hotspot under different climate scenarios	7
Jaguar (Panthera onca) population density and landscape connectivity in a deforestation hotspot: The Paraguayan Dry Chaco as a case study	7
Green royalties: Keeping offshore Amazon free of oil	7
Neotropical understory birds and mammals show divergent behaviour responses to human pressure	7
Identifying areas for multidimensional biodiversity conservation, with a case study in Oaxaca, Mexico	7
Estimating mammal density from track counts collected by Indigenous Amazonian hunters	6
Conservation of forest cover in Mesoamerican biosphere reserves is associated with the increase of local non-farm occupation	6
Making the most of existing data in conservation research	6
Guiding transdisciplinary synthesis processes for social-ecological policy decisions	6
Forest fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon: Trends and conservation strategies	6
Business, biodiversity, and innovation in Brazil	6
Açaí palm management and the multidimensional erosion of beta diversity across tree assemblages in the Amazon estuarine forest	6
Habitat protection and restoration: Win–win opportunities for migratory birds in the Northern Andes	6
Beyond data labor: sowing synthesis science in the Global South	6
Mapping the way: identifying priority potential corridors for protected areas connectivity in Colombia	6
Bird taxonomic and functional diversity in urban settlements within a forest biome vary with the landscape matrix	6
Functional trait perspective on suitable habitat distribution of invasive plant species at a global scale	6
Peatlands in the Brazilian Cerrado: insights into knowledge, status and research needs	6